biography
pronunciation:
[pyahzhay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1980)
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| biography:
| Psychologist and pioneer in the study of child intelligence, born in Neuchâtel, W Switzerland. After studying zoology he turned to psychology, became professor of psychology at Geneva University (1929–54), director of the Centre d'Epistémologie Génétique, and a director of the Institut des Sciences de l'Education. He is best known for his research on the development of cognitive functions in children, in such pioneering studies as La Naissance de l'intelligence chez l'enfant (1948, The Origins of Intelligence in Children). |
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